Am very jealous of the DCistas right now! and the Baltimorefistas. you're there and I'm not. hope you have a great, cooler, weekend!

flea - we're the same way. We can remember (sort of) sleeping in, but if Iris is up, eeeeveryone is up. It's been that way since the day she was born. I pass you coffee through the internets.

Oh, how I love waking up to Buffista kids stories. They're all growing up too fast!

Sox, there's a dragon boat regatta on the Schuykill today. If you aren't totally entrenched in the old man houses you might want to go. [link]

I'm off to see Tut's stuff.

Gronk. This is the part of the move where I start to panick that it's not going to all get done in time. I grateful that Mom and stepdad are coming to help today because I'm so sore and not being very useful.

MmmMmmMmmmm FredPete and Hubs took me out for breakfast. Good food and wonderful company. Buffistas are teh best!!!!

Now to pack. Blech. I hate this part. But following packing is meeting up with Sparky and touristing and then going home.

Side note - I love tech. I checked into my flight, but I don't have a printer here, so I saved my boarding pass as a pdf, mailed it to Sparky and she is going to bring me the hard copy.

Still no electricity, although the Electric Company claims they turned it on last night.

OK I think I'm playing this right... F Tom Hanson/ C Raoul Duke/ M J.M. Barrie.

Much electricity~ma to you and TCG, sj, and right quick too.

ION, Matilda now fits the incredibly soft and cool piratical onesie you sent her: [link] (last 3 pictures in this set).

And so much ~ma to your uncle, DJ. Your family is long overdue for a good long stretch of extremely boring robust good health.

I'm still kind of awed that these horrible heart problems that used to mean certain death can now not only be alleviated, but alleviated without the trauma of surgery. Stick an incredibly slender little tube up the inside of someone's thigh or down one side of his neck, fix his heart... it's magical.

JZ, you must have the magic touch! We have lights and hot water!

But with Emmett the thing you say to his face will get batted away, and yet still find its way into his ear. And he did take up that role. And he was very big brotherly to all of the younger players on the team. And he'd throw his arm around their shoulders when they were crying on the bench and say, "It's okay. We'll get 'em next time. It's just a game." And he never lost it on the field all season, even when he was having a tough time pitching.

I love Emmett!

Cass! [link]